Lily Harmon

First Born

Lily Harmon's original etching, "First Born" is printed upon 'Rives' paper and with full margins as published in an edition of two hundred and fifty impressions in New York by the Associated American Artists. It is signed and numbered by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. First Born hails from the collection of Roger Trlak. This is a fine, original example of the etched art created by the American artist, Lily Harmon.

First Born

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Title:	First Born
Artist:	Harmon, Lily (New Haven, Connecticut, 1912 - New York, 1998)
Date:	c. 1970
Medium:	Original Etching
Publisher:	Associated American Artists, New York
Edition:	Limited edition of two hundred and fifty impressions, numbered 15/250.
Note:	Lily Harmon: A leading American painter, etcher, lithographer and illustrator, Lily Harmon was a pupil of the Yale University School of Fine Arts, the Art Students League, New York, and the Academie Colarossi, Paris. Her first solo exhibition of painting and graphic works of art took place at the Associated American Artists Gallery in New York in 1944. Since that date her fine art has been exhibited at such locations as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, the University of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, and the National Academy of Design.
	Lily Harmon was a full member of the Artists Equity Association, the Provincetown Art Association and the National Academy of Design. She was also a Professor of Painting at the National Academy from 1974 until her retirement. The art of Lily Harmon is now included in such major collections as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Hirschhorn Museum and the Tel-Aviv Museum, Israel.
	First Born was commissioned by the Associated American Artists of New York around 1970 in a sole limited edition of 250 impressions. Since its creation in the mid 1930's the Associated American Artists commissioned original graphic art from such great masters as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and others. It published etchings and lithographs of no less stature during the 1960's and 1970's as contributing artists from around the world included Lily Harmon, Jacob Landau, W. B. Eberhard Eggers, Peter Klitsch, Robert Bero, David Shapiro, Jack Levine, Chaim Koppelman, Joseph Margulies, James Kearns, Gregory Masurovsky, Jack Coughlin and Sidney Chafetz.
Provenance:	From the collection of Roger Trlak and bearing his inventory number, 'T-774', on the lower right corner. Roger Trlak (1934-1975) established the commercial art company of Martin-Trlak in Chicago. In 1972 he also opened the RST Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona where he exhibited not only his own large collection of mostly contemporary art but also held important exhibitions of many modern artists. These Included such major American and international printmakers as Joseph Hirsch, Luigi Lucioni, Birgit Skiold and Paul Wunderlich. Among Trlak's closest friends in the arts community were Raphael Soyer, Ivan Albright and Hans Burkhardt. Contemporary prints and paintings were constantly exhibited at the RST Gallery until it was closed in 1975 due to Trlak's untimely death.
Size:	7 1/2 X 11 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon 'Rives' paper and with full margins as published in New York by the Associated American Artists. Signed and numbered, '15/250', by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. Containing very faint light toning, else a strongly printed impression and in very good condition throughout. First Born represents a prime, original example of the famous American art of Lily Harmon.
	The original presentation sticker from the Associated American Artists is included.
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